Regeneration of aged DMF for use in solid-phase peptide synthesis

Jordan Kevin Magtaan; Marc Devocelle; Fintan Kelleher

doi:10.1002/psc.3139

Regeneration of aged DMF for use in solid-phase peptide synthesis

Jordan Kevin Magtaan, Marc Devocelle, Fintan Kelleher

School of Chemical and BioPharmaceutical Science

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Abstract

Dimethylformamide (DMF), which is still the most commonly used solvent for Fmoc-SPPS, has the potential for degradation over time on exposure to air (and water vapour) and storage, to give dimethylamine and formic acid impurities. In particular, dimethylamine can lead to unwanted deprotection of the fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl (Fmoc) group during, for example, the initial loading of Fmoc amino acids in SPPS, which leads reduced calculated loading values. We have found that treatment of such aged DMF by simple sparging with an inert gas (N₂), or vacuum sonication, can regenerate the DMF in order to restore loading levels back to those found for newer, fresh, DMF samples.

Original language	English
Article number	e3139
Journal	Journal of Peptide Science
Volume	25
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/psc.3139
Publication status	Published - Jan 2019

Keywords

DMF regeneration
Fmoc group
SPPS
resin loading

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Regeneration of aged DMF for use in solid-phase peptide synthesis

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